Guy Smith | January 5, 2010
Working with other musicians can be a downright joy.
Lately I have had Steve Laciak (who I have nicknamed “One Take Laciak”) doing lead guitar on some demos. Steve is of that caste of musicians that take his craft seriously and life … not so much. The result is he comes into the studio, [...]
Guy Smith | December 16, 2009
People watchful for signs of the Apocalypse saw one this morning as news broke that both ABBA and The Stooges will be inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
To steal yet another line from Mojo Nixon, “What could be less rock and roll than ABBA. The Archies?”
For people fortunate enough to sleep through [...]
Guy Smith | August 29, 2009
I could get used to this real quick.
There is a holy place in the unholy town of Berkeley, California. Smelted in the 1960’s along with several thousand other coffee shops (the American variety, not the Amsterdam kind, though in the 60’s the differences were minor) was The Freight. Its proper name is The [...]
Guy Smith | August 23, 2009
Having written songs and performed solo for way too long, it is odd being in a band. (We’ll call it a band. More like four guys who wanted to jam and needed a good reason to drink week nights). Individually we are all quite good. Collectively we are sloppy with occasional [...]
Guy Smith | July 6, 2009
Drilling down through my list of songs to record or fix, I encountered Stolen Horses, the only outright Western I’ve ever written. Two years have lapsed between the original recording and this fix, which was actually a blessing. In those two years the recording studio software has been radically updated as has been my engineering [...]
